How to share a mind: Reconsidering the group mind thesis

How the mind works.

How to Use Your Mind

How to Design a Functioning Mind

The group-member mind trade-off: attributing mind to groups versus group members.

People attribute minds to other individuals and make inferences about those individuals' mental states to explain and predict their behavior. Little is known, however, about whether people also attribute minds to groups and believe that collectives, companies, and corporations can think, have intentions, and make plans. Even less is known about the consequences of these attributions for both gr...

Sociality and the life-mind continuity thesis

The life-mind continuity thesis holds that mind is prefigured in life and that mind belongs to life. The biggest challenge faced by proponents of this thesis is to show how an explanatory framework that accounts for basic biological processes can be systematically extended to incorporate the highest reaches of human cognition. We suggest that this apparent „cognitive gap‟ between minimal and hu...